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Originally Posted by Winsor_Pilates
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I've heard many bands point to them as influences. Especially to Radiohead.
Here's a small sample.... (taken mostly off Wikipedia)
"Radiohead's mid-1990s albums, particularly The Bends, have been influential in popularizing emotional, melodic, multilayered British Rock music, whose current adherents include such popular bands as Coldplay , Travis, Muse and Keane."
"Chris Martin of Coldplay is known as a huge fan of Radiohead and Thom Yorke, going so far as to describe his own band as "eager dogs yapping at their heels"
"Acclaimed novelist Michael Cunningham cited OK Computer as an album, which "for reasons I can't begin to explain... subtly but palpably helped shape" The Hours."
"Dave Matthews wrote of wanting to give up whenever he hears a new Radiohead album and realizes it's as good or better than the last"
" Listening to Radiohead makes me feel like I'm a Salieri to their Mozart." Billy Corgan (Smashing Pumpkins)
They have also been covered in concert by artists such as....
-The Darkness
-John Mayer
-Jamie Cullum
-Moby
The album OK Computer....
-Named the best album of the past 20 years by Spin magazine
-Best album of all time by a British TV poll
-Voted best album of all time in Q magazine
-Even Muchmusic placed it #3 on the top albums since 1980 (funny how they won't play a video though)  |
I don't really get your point anyways. I suppose they have influence then. That's really nice of you to point that out. And because they've been around for a lot longer, it's also really nice that they've influenced other artists, they've had more time to do it. So because an artist isn't influential, they suck? Is that what you're saying? Or are you saying that those they've influenced are now not original as they're jsut using the work of others to make their own?
I enjoy Bach but he doesn't influnce my writing... does he suck? I enjoy Eminem but can't rap so he hasn't really influenced what I sing, does he suck? What constitutes an influence?
Basically what you're trying to say is because other bands don't want to be like Nickelback, they suck. Well do other bands want to be like Alexisonfire? Does that mean they suck? Does the talent a band have necessarily reflected in others being influenced by them?